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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott, PaperbackOriginal price was: $9.00.$7.65Current price is: $7.65.
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Edwin A. Abbott’s hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years–including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. In this mind-expanding satire, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before describing his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension.
Although it did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, Flatland gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction.
Includes the author’s original illustrations and a short biography.
Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Edwin A. Abbott
Published: 08/10/2019
Publisher: Warbler Classics
ISBN: 9781733561624
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.28d
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Weight | 0.32 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8 × 5.25 × 0.28 in |
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